Please add BiDi support to Vim

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For those who love using Vim, but need to work in multiple languages at the 
same time, the lack of bi-directional support for working with right-to-left 
languages is a significant drawback.  I understand that this may be difficult 
to implement, but please do consider it as a significant feature for a future 
release of vim and gvim, especially as Unicode use and support is growing in 
popularity.  Thanks for making Vim.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by casey.be...@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2014 at 8:39

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Did you try?: set rightleft

Original comment by mattn.jp on 10 Mar 2014 at 4:21

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That is what I'm using, yes.  But notice here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Right-to-left_and_bidire
ctional_text

Support for right-to-left text is not the same as bidirectional text support.  
If I have a file with English and Hebrew in the same file, I can only read one 
language at a time, depending on the direction of the text.  Bidirectional 
support would mean that I would be able to read both languages at the same time 
(the text for both languages displays correctly).

I won't pretend to know how this should be implemented, but this article might 
give a bit more detail on how it works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text#Unicode_support

Thanks.

Original comment by casey.be...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2014 at 12:01